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A ruler who keeps fat horses while his people starve is leading beasts to devour men
Drawn from what Mencius said
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- Mencius Confucian philosopher of the fourth century BCE
In your stalls there are fat beasts; in your stables there are fat horses. But your people have the look of hunger, and in the fields there are those who have died of famine. This is leading on beasts to devour men.
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